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  • Danielle Meyer on Nutrition and Cancer
    3/26/24
    A love of food led Danielle Meyer to become a dietitian. The joy of giving a cancer patient permission to eat ice cream led her to become a board-certified specialist in oncology nutrition. In this episode, she dispels common myths about trendy diets, superfoods, the sugar/cancer connection and more, and gives us all permission to eat chocolate cake for dinner if that鈥檚 what the day calls for.
  • Patricia Logan-Greene on Preventing Gun Violence
    2/27/24
    Patricia Logan-Greene discovered her passion for social work after volunteering at a rape crisis center. Now she鈥檚 co-leading a national initiative aimed at giving social workers the tools to tackle firearms, the No. 1 killer of children and teens in the U.S. In this episode, she explains why she thinks social workers are uniquely positioned to reduce firearm deaths in America.
  • Mark Frank on Detecting Deception
    1/30/24
    Working as a bouncer during college, Mark Frank found he could learn a lot about people by observing their gestures and expressions. Today the communications professor is a globally recognized expert on nonverbal communication who advises the FBI and the CIA. In this episode, Frank explains how he鈥檚 able to get the truth out of even the most practiced liars.
  • Jinjun Xiong on AI for Social Good
    11/28/23
    He was a young computer scientist at IBM when the company鈥檚 Watson computer beat its human rivals on 鈥淛eopardy!鈥. Today, as the director of UB鈥檚 Institute for Artificial Intelligence and Data Science, Jinjun Xiong is focused on how AI can help humans, not defeat them. In this episode, he discusses all the ways AI can make our lives better, and why we shouldn鈥檛 be so afraid of it.

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